therefore for Jesus; and they discoursed one with
another, standing in the temple: What think you that he is not come to
the festival day? And the chief priests and Pharisees had given a
commandment that, if any man knew where he was, he should tell, that
they might apprehend him.

John Chapter 12

The anointing of Christ's feet. His riding into Jerusalem upon an ass. A
voice from heaven.

12:1. Jesus therefore, six days before the pasch, came to Bethania,
where Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised to life.

12:2. And they made him a supper there: and Martha served. But Lazarus
was one of them that were at table with him.

12:3. Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of
great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her
hair. And the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

12:4. Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, he that was about to
betray him, said:

12:5. Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence and given
to the poor?

12:6. Now he said this not because he cared for the poor; but because he
was a thief and, having the purse, carried the things that were put
therein.

12:7. Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against
the day of my burial.

12:8. For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.

See the annotation of St. Matt. 26. 11.

12:9. A great multitude therefore of the Jews knew that he was there;
and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see
Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

12:10. But the chief priests thought to kill Lazarus also:

12:11. Because many of the Jews, by reason of him, went away and
believed in Jesus.

12:12. And on the next day, a great multitude that was come to the
festival day, when they had heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

12:13. Took branches of palm trees and went forth to meet him and cried
Hosanna. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, the king of
Israel.

12:14. And Jesus found a young ass and sat upon it, as it is written:

12:15. Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold thy king cometh, sitting on an
ass's colt.

12:16. These things his disciples did not know at the first: but when
Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written
of him and that they had done these things to him.

12:17. The multitude therefore gave testimony, which was with him, when
he called Lazarus out